GMO corn is a lawsuite waiting to happen to somebody because genes some organisation belives belongs to them starts breaking out into the general pool. I religiously avoid gmo because I don't want to encourage or support scumbag companies like Monsanto, who are trying to sew up ownership of whole classes of organisms, by claiming their deliberate contamination is IPR theft.

The 3d printing part of it allows the creation of meta materials that cannot be created by any other means, with a fine enough printing system you can control the internal geometric structure of the material. All sorts of weird properties can created. The "cool" is not in the 3d printing, that is just a tool to create the meta material. The "cool" is in the structure of the material Itself.

Short of a working nano assembler tech, 3d printing is about as close as you can get to creating virtual alloys of materials with complex internal geometric structures.

Here in the philippines, water is often kept cool by storing it in porus pots, the water slowly seeps through the walls of the clay pot, and evaporates from the outside, there are no channels as its using the micro pore structure of the earthen ceramic pot. The evaporation lowers the temperature of the whole pot.

Checkout the "cyclone pcb mill", basicaly a small pcb focused cnc rig, for isolation milling and drilling custom pcbs.

It is almost completly 3d printed and can use a quadcoptor motor or a dremel as a spindle, its essentialy a small cnc machine made with 3d printer parts.

If you want a makerbot like machine, then the latest flashforge creator pro is a fantastic clone of the replicator 1. Dont get taken in by the flashforge dreamer which is a POS, its also the same machine being pushed by dremel.

on the software side you can use slic3r or cura with the GPX module, dont listen to those who say you can only use makerware or repg

Interesting, the first time they did that, it would trigger a wave of replacement world wide, so you get the situation where they wont because they dont want to burn that card.

It long past the point where the world needs a reliable supply of non-US based technology components, i now consider almost everything originating from the US as being irrevocably compromised. And china is not much better.

We have sold our souls to the devil for the nice tunes he plays, and now we have to pay.

There are numerous mobile wifi router/bridges which can plug into a wired network and make ot available over wifi, either as a bridged or routed connection. At home they can also be used as a wifi range extender.

For example

http://www.tp-link.com/en/prod...

I bought a flashforge, who are ripping them off......

Agreed, this abhorrence of open plan offices seems to be a percularly american trait. I have no problens focusing in an open office, being able to tune out distractions is all part of the trade.

I think he is trying to show that the distros are doing a poor job in ensuring that insecure versions are not getting frozen in thier distributions.

Yes and thier math is a little strange, Average paperback page is 400 words, which puts 90,000 word novel about 225 pages. They say that it had 100 hyphenated words, which is only one occurance every 2-3 pages, which does not sound excessive at all.

Google will still have people and assets in spain after the withdrawl of google news, which is after all only one relativly small part of its spanish operations.

3, assumes there is no storage capability at the renewable end, new storage technologies are comming online every day, largely driven by the EV industry. If the solar system could store 24 hours worth of energy, then that problem goes away. True it will drive up costs and that may change the break even point, but storage costs are on the same downward trajectory as the renewable generation costs.

Do you actualy know what socalisim is?

People have tried to get me to eat balut, i cant bring myself to do it, its a rite of passage that the local guys here try to put foreigners through. Its almost the first thing they offer when you ask about philippine cuisine. They all think its very funny when you go strange colour as they describe it to you. I'd rather eat red salt egg or 1000 year egg than balut. Although i am partial to a pickeled egg, my wife has just learnt how to make them and proper pickeled onions, so they are back on the menu. All I need now is a decent supply of Cod out here that does not cost 4 gold bars a kilo, and its chippy night again, battered cod and chips, pickeled eggs, pickled onions, buckets of salt, malt vinegar and ketchup. And some doorstops of white bread and butter to make a chip butty. Good strong cup of hot milky sweet tea to go with it. Loverly........ Homesick british ex-pat in manila.